10,000 fans buy tickets for virtual Di-rect show
The Royal Theatre in the Hague was at 15 times’ its physical capacity on Saturday, as nearly 10,000 people tuned into Di-rect’s livestreamed show
News By IQ | 9 June 2020
Nearly 10,000 people tuned into a ticketed livestream performance by the popular Dutch band Di-rect in the Hague on Saturday.
The veteran rock act played to an empty Royal Theatre (Koninklijke Schouwburg), a 680-seat venue in the centre of the Netherlands’ legislative capital, on 6 June, after having sold tickets for the concert on a pay-what-you-want basis.
With ticket sales of just shy of 10,000, the band – who were originally scheduled to play 20 festival shows this summer – played to…